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Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
LabArchives electronic research notebook platform. LabArchives is a cloud-based service designed as an analog to a paper notebook.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.
Email and calendaring services provide standard individual e-mail, calendaring, and contact management services.
There are several tools supported by Northwestern IT and guidance available in helping you choose what tool best fits your self-service needs. To understand the strength and limitations of the tools we recommend you review each offering and check out their pages.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
The Northwestern Research Portal is a one-stop-shop for researchers and their staff to obtain research administration information. The Portal displays data from multiple systems in a user-friendly way, allowing faculty members self-service access to drill into details of the project information they are most interested in.
Northwestern has licensed the CrowdStrike Falcon software application for protecting managed endpoints against viruses, malware, and ransomware. This solution is an integral component of endpoint security, which utilizes artificial intelligence and a lightweight agent, providing visibility into the entire threat lifecycle and allowing IT and security professionals to act quickly and effectively to critical security events on Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
The Northwestern software download portal helps students, faculty, and staff identify the ways in which they can purchase or download Northwestern-recommended software titles.
NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.
RDSS provides secure on-premise data storage for researchers.
Northwestern Information Technology provides traditional phone services to the Northwestern community that include desk phones, conference room phones, voicemail, and software phone clients. Custom configurations for analog voice service or SIP connections can also be provided upon request and consultation.
Northwestern provides lecture capture services for University schools, departments, and business units provide users with the ability to record and archive lecture videos for live or on-demand viewing from a web browser.
CrowdStrike Falcon is Northwestern's licensed software application for protecting Northwestern-owned and managed machines and devices against viruses and other malware. For personally owned devices and machines not managed by the University, it is critical that students, faculty, and staff members install antivirus software, update virus definitions, and run virus scans daily.
Microsoft Project, is a project management service within the Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins that allows for the development of schedules, resource assignment, creation of tasks, tracking, budget management, workload review, and the sharing of this information with chosen stakeholders.
Urgent assistance or emergency AV support in supported rooms is available by calling 847-467-7666 (7-ROOM from the classroom telephone).
Service monitoring at Northwestern consists of several “opt-in” products and notification tools that provide application and functional support staff the ability to monitor the performance and health of University applications and respond to events or issues associated with them.
Qualtrics is an easy-to-use, web-based tool for creating and conducting full-featured online surveys.
The web content management system (WCMS) allows users to author websites without needing to learn programming languages or markup.